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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9513338" data-attributes="member: 18">It is definitely very hard to imagine, given the studios WotC currently owns.The only one that seems to be competent is unproven, and that's Archetype Entertainment. Exodus is gradually coming together, and unlikely to release before mid-2026, but it looks like it's making a lot of good decisions. Even then, we've seen this before - a very promising-seeming game with strong pre-hype, from a new AAA studio with industry veterans in charge, which turns out to be an absolute dud at release. In fact, it is sadly fair to say that is the actually the normal course for "new AAA studio with industry veterans in charge".The others we know of have all either failed to produce anything, or produced actively-bad games. And none of them seem to be very together.As Archetype are busy for at least the next couple of years, it's got to be either one of the other "never made anything/made rubbish" studios or yet another new studio, given it's WotC internal. If another new studio, even if they have veteran talent there, we can expect 1-3 years just to hire enough people to get the game moving, and then 3-5 years to get the game made.So that's 4 to 8 years before we'd even see this game! By then we'll likely have:A) Witcher 4 from CDPRB) Elden Ring 2 (or equivalent thereof) from FromSoftC) Mass Effect 5 from BiowareD) Possibly Cyberpunk 2077 from CDPR 2 if it's more like 8 than 4 years.E) New Larian CRPG (Not DOS or D&D is all we know)F) Possibly New Larian CRPG 2! (Possibly DOS3)G) The Elder Scrolls 6/Skyrim 2 from BethesdaH) Exodus from WotC (!!!)I) The Outer Worlds 2 from ObsidianJ) Other CRPG or tactics RPG from Obsidian (possibly Josh Sawyer-made)K) Owlcat CRPG 1 (new IP)L) Owlcat CRPG 2 (unknown IP)M) Fable rebootN) Casey Hudson-lead Sci-Fi RPG from Humanoid OriginAnd that's like, not even all of the AAAs, nor is it including the likely large numbers of indie RPGs or surprise AAAs that may pop up.So I'm really skeptical that a WotC-made and lead D&D RPG landing in that kind of environment is going to look anything but really bad. It took Larian a lot of attempts to get to where they are now - they've been around for decades.</blockquote>

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